Grass Fed Foods is dedicated to providing healthy, nutritious foods made with clean ingredients, ensuring that consumers have access to food that supports a healthy lifestyle. 

Wallace brings nearly 30 years of experience and a successful track record of leadership in business growth, strategy, commercial, trading and risk management in the food and agriculture industries.

As chief customer officer, Jarocki will lead KIND’s sales organization and oversee strategic planning and growth opportunities across all sales channels to bring KIND into even more households.

Ricks has been a member of CAULIPOWER’s board of directors since 2022. With his move to CEO, the company will now benefit from his extensive experience as a strategist and an operator. 

Ardent Mills is conducting both an internal and external search, and the board seeks to announce a new CEO in the near future. 

Florida Food Products, LLC (FFP), a privately held natural ingredients supplier in the world and trailblazer in clean label solutions, announced appointments to its leadership team designed to continue the accelerating growth and innovations in the food and beverage industry. 

This transition comes at an exciting time for Kevin's Natural Foods, following its acquisition by Mars and a period of record sales and exponential growth.

The latest major economic development from Mars supports a Research and Development (R&D) Innovation Studio—including a new test kitchen and packaging lab—along with manufacturing efficiencies and advancements in food safety at the Hackettstown manufacturing factory.

Golden State Foods (GSF), a diversified suppliers to the foodservice and retail industries, announced the promotion of Mariana Manole to senior vice president, global food safety, quality, and regulatory affairs (FSQR), as well as the appointment of Steve Ross as senior vice president, operations, liquid products of North America (LPNA).

In this role, O'Mara will have responsibility for identifying and scaling new organic growth platforms and acquisitions. The work will span strategy, product innovation, commercialization, synergy capture, and in-market execution.